ေမြးစားရင္းမွတ္ပံုတင္ႏိုင္ျခင္းသည္ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ တစ္ခုလံုး အတြက္ ႀကီးမားေသာ အေျပာင္းအလဲ

ေရးသားသူ-မန္နီေမာင္

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Manny Maung

 

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဂ်ဴလိုင္၂၀၁၅- ဆရာမ ေနာ္သဇင္တစ္ေယာက္ လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္း ႏွစ္ခုဧ။္ တိုက္ပြဲအၾကားတြင္ ပိတ္မိေနခဲ့ၿပီး က်ိဳးသြားေသာ သူမဧ။္ ေျခေထာက္ကို သံုးလေက်ာ္ေလာက္ အခ်ိန္ယူ ကုသဖို႔ လိုေနသည္။ သူမသည္ ထိုင္းျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ ေတာနက္အတြင္းရိွ ေ၀းလံလွေသာ ရြာသို႔ ေရာက္ေအာင္ ရြာသြန္းေနေသာ မိုးႏွင့္ ရႊံ႕ဗြက္ထူေျပာလွေသာ ေျမျပင္တို႕ကို ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္ၿပီး ရက္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ လမ္းေလ်ွာက္ခဲ့ရသည္။ အခ်ိဳ႕ရက္မ်ားတြင္ အိပ္ခဲ့ရသည္ပင္ မရိွပါ။ အသက္သံုးဆယ့္ရွစ္ႏွစ္အရြယ္ရိွ ဆရာမေနာ္သဇင္က “ ဒါက်မအလုပ္ပါဘဲ” ဟု ေျပာသည္။ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္းရိွ မွတ္ပံုတင္သူနာျပဳ ဆရာမေလးသည္ ကာကြယ္ေဆးထိုးရန္ အတြက္ေသာ္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား ျဖန္႔ေ၀ရန္ အတြက္ေသာ္ လည္းေကာင္း ေ၀းလံၿပီး ေတာႀကီးမ်က္မည္း အတြင္းရွိ ေဒသမ်ားသို႔ အႀကိမ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ခရီးထြက္ခဲ့ရပါသည္။ အၿမဲတန္းလိုလို သြားလာေနခဲ့ရေသာ ခရီးစဥ္မ်ားႏွင့္အတူ ရရိွလာခဲ့သည့္ ရင္းႏွီးခင္မင္လာၾကေသာ ဆက္ဆံေရးမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ဆရာမေနာ္သဇင္သည္ တိုင္းရင္းသား ရြာသူ၊ ရြာသားမ်ားသာမက အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၏ ယံုၾကည္မႈကိုပါ ရရိွခဲ့သည္။

Building a protective environment for every child in Rakhine

By Mariana Palavra

Zu Ber lives in a Muslim village between two camps for displaced people
© UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Myo Thame

Sittwe, Rakhine State, 10 June 2015 – A one and a half hour walk to attend English classes was a sacrifice worth making for 13 year-old Zu Ber. He lives in Ohn Taw Chay, a Muslim village located between two camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar.

From Community Support Networks to National Social Welfare

By Virginia Henderson

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Virginia Henderson
Aung Than Myint, 13, in front of his family home in Shwe Taung Ward, Taunggyi, Southern Shan State

 

Taunggyi, Southern Shan State, June 2015:  In a tiny shack in Shwe Taung Ward, Taunggyi, Aung Than Myint, 13 years, lives with his mother Daw San San Myint, 41, her second husband and two of his four siblings; the other two live with their grandmother.

Birth registrations make all the difference in Kayin State

By Manny Maung

 

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Manny Maung

Kayin State, July 2015 - Naw Thazin has been caught in the middle of cross fire between non-State armed groups.  She has broken her foot, which needed more than three months to heal.  She has walked several days through rain and mud to get to remote villages deep into the jungles that border Myanmar and Thailand.  Some days, she has gone with little to no sleep.

No to Child Labour - Yes to Quality Education

The theme for 2015 World Day Against Child Labour is No to Child Labour - Yes to Quality Education. This year we are calling for free, compulsory and quality education for all children in Myanmar.

Many child labourers don't attend school regularly or at all. Free and compulsory education of good quality is key to ending child labour by giving children the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills. To find out more, read Wei Phyoe’s story below.

You can also download a flyer, notebook, and poster with drawings by children taking part in Non-Formal Primary Education (NFPE), supported by the Quality Basic Education Programme. The drawings were created as part of a workshop on child labour run by UNICEF, the Myanmar Literacy Resource Centre (MLRC) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Wei Phyoe’s Story

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Khine Zar Mon
Wei Phyoe Thu at his NFPE class

Give me a second chance for education!

Tomorrow, 12 June, is World Day Against Child Labour. The theme for 2015 is No to Child Labour - Yes to Quality Education. To mark the day this is the first of two blogs on non-formal education in Myanmar...

Anne-Cecile with students from an EXCEL centre in Tayetchaung Township, Tanintharyi Region

The moment I enter the room I feel a stream of energy invading me. It must have been the frank smiles and energetic greetings of the 36 students I met! These students are all visibly different ages and from first sight their learning environment appeared so different from a traditional classroom with so many conventions floating in the air.

Teaching handwashing in 30 seconds

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Mariana Palavra

By Mariana Palavra

Momauk, Kachin State- Myo Ja will never forget the sound of the bombs, the gun shots, the crossfire, the fear. This was in 2011, when she was ten years old and the conflict between the Myanmar Armed Forces and Kachin armed groups knocked at her door, in Nansai village.